Pakistan Railways had used special trains from Karachi, Hyderabad and Nawabshah to take passengers to Multan.
In October 2002, a major Pakistani English-language newspaper reported about a 3-day public gathering in the city of Multan, Pakistan which was held by Dawat-e-Islami organization and was attended by thousands of people from all parts of Pakistan and other countries. It also arranges an annual gathering of its followers in Bangladesh.
Dawat-e-Islami owns its own TV Channel known as Madani Channel. Followers travel for specific days to spread the message of Islam to the people. The two most significant activities of Dawat-e-Islami are Madani Qafila ( missionary travel) and Naik Amal (self assessment questionnaires).
ĭawat-e-Islami has spread into an excess of 194 nations of the globe through 26000+ workers, various volunteers and evangelists who are engendering the message of Islam in their area. Missionary activities ĭawat-e-Islami, a global and non-political movement for the preaching of the Quran and Sunnah, is determined to revive Sunnah and spread righteousness as well as the knowledge of Sharī'ah throughout the world.Ģnd September is considered as the Day of Dawateislami because on this day 40 years ago Dawateislami came into being. ĭawat-e-Islami was established initially to dilute the influence of Tablighi Jamaat, a Deobandi organisation. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.Allama Arshadul Qaudri and Islamic scholar Shah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), along with other Pakistani Sunni scholars, selected Ilyas Qadri, who was the then Punjab president of Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam, JUP's youth wing, aged 23, as the head of Dawat-e-Islami at Dār-ul ´ulūm Amjadia. (Reporting by Richard Lough in Paris and Asif Shahzad in Islamabad Editing by Giles Elgood) Qadri says a person who commits blasphemy should be handed in to police, but if another individual were driven by their emotions to kill the blasphemer, the law should not apply.ĭawat-e-Islami did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Qadri is a Sunni cleric and the founder of Dawat-e-Islami, a non-violent organisation spread across the globe. Wearing a long tunic, the suspect said he was spiritually guided by Ilyas Qadri.
The weekly, which moved to a secret location after the attack, republished the cartoons earlier this month to mark the beginning of the trial of 14 people with alleged links to the Charlie Hebdo killers.įor Muslims, any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous. The cartoons were first published by Charlie Hebdo in 2006 and spurred Islamist militants to target the magazine's office in 2015 in an attack that left 12 people dead and was claimed by al Qaeda. and said that the God's Prophet had chosen him, and assigned him to kill the blasphemers." "I can sacrifice all my five sons to protect the Prophet's honour." "My heart is filled with happiness," Arshad Mehmood told the online news site Naya Pakistan from the family home. "I am going to do (an act of) resistance today, Sept. "If I'm sounding emotional, let me explain: here, in France, the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were made," he says in Urdu. Starting to sob, he then recites poetry praising the Prophet Mohammad. In the video, the suspect identifies himself as Zeheer Hassan Mehmood and says he came from Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab province. A police source confirmed a video was being examined.
Reuters could not independently authenticate the video recording. The video was found on the suspect's mobile phone, French media reported. Officials said his clothes were spattered in blood. The suspect, who is from Pakistan, was arrested soon after two people were wounded in front of the old offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine. PARIS/ISLAMABAD, Sept 28 (Reuters) - French police are studying a video in which the man suspected of attacking people with a meat cleaver on Friday says he will commit an act of "resistance" after the republication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad in a satirical magazine. (Changes dateline, adds remarks made by suspect's father praising the attack and no immediate reaction from Dawat-e-Islami)